[00:02.46]STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO
[00:04.15]"They Provide The Paint For The Picture Perfect Masterpiece That You Will Paint On The Insides Of Your Eyelids"
[00:08.16]*
[00:15.87]There is a man with no face
[00:18.24]And a name I don't remember
[00:19.43]Who lives in a house in the middle of the woods
[00:21.31]And he said once "Son, don't you ever laugh out loud for they are listening,
[00:23.52]Yes they are listening
[00:25.60]Oh you've got to be strong
[00:29.60]Oh, you've got to keep holding on
[00:33.07]It's now just a matter of time"
[00:39.35](Head for the hills, go!)
[00:42.97]*
[00:56.05]They provide the paint for the picture perfect masterpiece
[00:58.11]That you will paint on the insides of your eyelids;
[01:00.02]Can you possibly see anything you want to see?
[01:01.77]No (Hell No!)
[01:02.89]"There's nothing wrong with the way I see"
[01:04.02]And he wanted to be a soldier in the next great war
[01:05.83]He wanted to kill and fight and maim but not be told what he was fighting for
[01:08.19]And that's the way it's going to have to be my friend,
[01:10.32]And that's the way it's going to have to be my friend
[01:12.63]*
[01:19.93]I passed a man on the corner in the city yesterday singing
[01:22.24]"Yada yada yada and tomorrow it'll never end"
[01:24.05]And I never thought I'd never live to see another sunny day
[01:26.04]But I'm here and I fear I'll be here till the end
[01:28.29]So watch your mouth
[01:29.29]Or you're going to make a grave mistake
[01:30.35]Hold your tongue
[01:31.16]Or you're going to catch a bullet in the head
[01:32.54]So watch your mouth
[01:33.34]Or you're going to make a grave mistake
[01:34.53]Don't die for anything less than the best of life
[01:36.97]*
[02:04.11]The things you said went to your head
[02:05.86]But you never tried to understand:
[02:07.67]What they'll take you will never take back what they take when take what they can
[02:10.29]Because they can from you
[02:11.79]You follow me and you follow me but you never ask why
[02:13.28]And I wonder what you're under could this be another piece of the
[02:15.41]"I don't care I just do what they say because they say what to do in a matter of fact way"
[02:19.65]But don't stop because you might get burned
[02:21.28]And you might just learn to stand on your own two feet
[02:23.58]And I think that it's neat how you learn to repeat everything
[02:26.51]That you hear in the street so well
[02:29.50]You learn to repeat everything that you hear so well
[02:33.51]You learn to repeat everything that you hear so well
[02:35.99]*
[02:43.49]And everyone was resting because they thought it was the end
[02:45.29]And even if it wasn't they decide they'd pretend
[02:47.29]And somewhere in the distance I could hear him whispering
[02:49.16]"You can fight all you want you'll never win in the end"
[02:51.53]*
[03:07.44]Sometimes in the evening when I'm lying in my bed
[03:09.26]I am taken to the forest to the isolated shed
[03:11.31]And I wake with his words resonating in my head
[03:13.37]And I can't stop thinking about the gist of what he said:
[03:15.37]So watch your mouth
[03:16.31]Or you're going to make a grave mistake
[03:17.42]Hold your tongue
[03:18.24]Or you're going to catch a bullet in the head
[03:19.55]So watch your mouth
[03:20.30]Or you're going to make a grave mistake
[03:21.42]Don't die for anything less than the best of,
[03:23.60]Everyone settles for the rest not the best of,
[03:25.61]I will die for no less than the best of life